Facts Not Fear- A Parent's Guide to Teaching Children About the Environment by Michael Sanera and Jane S. Shaw is an excellent 300-page book published by Regnery Publishing, Inc., Washington, DC (1996). With a wealth of information and many excellent comparisons, this book is good reading for adults, with or without children, and a great gift for children and grandchildren.
"Recycling - Boon or Bust'' in The Torch5, Number 8, pp 1-8, December 1996, available from 5535 E. Rosewood St., Tucson, AZ 85711. Recycling has always been a part of industrial procedures when it was economically sensible, but the enviro-induced recycling mania of recent years is just interactive propaganda. This article shows that it has also become a great waste of resources. Especially interesting is the explanation of why paper recycling actually harms forests by making good forest management practices uneconomical.
Conservative Environmentalism - Reassessing the Means, Redefining the Ends by James R. Dunn and John E. Kinney published by Quorum Books, Westport, Connecticut (1996). This is a serious, well-documented, and well-referenced book demonstrating that free-enterprise and technology generally enhance the environment and improve human life, while government environmental controls and regulations usually harm the environment and degrade human life.
"The Normal Population that Tried to Deny Itself or a Modern Case Fable of the Foibles of Making 58.3% Better than the Other Half'' by Carl Olson in The Journal of Irreproducible Results24, No. 4, pp 24-27 (1978), is a hilarious description of those who try to defeat the distribution function of human conditions by means of government fiats. J. Irrep. Results41, No. 6, pp 25-26 (1996), also reprinted the Access to Energy23, No. 8 (1996) editorial "Sweet and Dangerous.'
"Looking for Results,'' an interview with Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase on rights, resources, and regulation by Thomas W. Hazlett in Reason 28, No. 8, pp 40-46, January 1997, available from 3415 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90034-6064.
Environmentalism Gone Berserk by Mike Oliver. Mr. Oliver has been working on this interesting book for several years. If it is not yet published, he may be willing to provide a draft copy. Write to Mike Oliver, P.O. Box 485, 504 Mary Street, Carson City, NV 89703.
"The trick is to be so skilled at work that it becomes play - Self-Motivation for the Study of Science'' by Arthur B. Robinson in Practical Homeschooling, November/December 1996, pp 44-45, available from P. O. Box 1250, Fenton, MO 63026-1850.
